Farming organisations call for more aid for the ‘forgotten farmers’
IFA rural development chair John Curran said: 'The forgotten farmer scheme is long overdue, but what the department is currently offering falls far short of what the installation aid was in the past.'
Following the announcement of the long-established young farmers scheme, farming organisations say more aid is needed.
The scheme aims to help the ‘forgotten farmers’, a group defined as young farmers who were under the age of 40 in 2015, who were not eligible for young farmer supports under the CAP from 2015 due to the date they had first set up in agriculture.
